Posts tagged ‘Da Meat Hook’

Just when we thought the Nats MIGHT be getting on some sort of track (I would say back on track but that would assume that they were on track to begin with) yet another “best player on the team” goes down with an injury. Elijah Dukes is the Nats third No. 3 hitter to suffer the injury bug this season, joining the prestigious ranks of Ryan Zimmerman and Lastings Milledge. This just goes to show that the whole season is a wash. Pack it up and go home. I can no longer get mad at the kids partying at the Red Loft instead of watching the game. Hell, I might join you. I was just getting excited about the Duke too. I had all these great homerun calls using John Wayne references and channeling the spirits of the Dukes from Trading Places – “Looking good Elijah… feeling good Lastings!” – ugh, what a waste of my pointless popular culture knowledge.

There is a positive way to look at this however. We now get to see the future of the team and how good they may be. That is something for Nats fans to be excited about. Bring up the boys from AAA and AA… hell even A, to see what they can do. It’s not like they’d be taking anyone’s roster spot.

So who will be the next No.3 hitter? It was Austin Kearns the other day after he had a cup of coffee down in AA over the weekend. But I’m hoping that this may be the break… and he has had many… that Dmitri Young needs to shine. There is no one to take first from him and an open lineup to pick his spot. We will address this next show I’m sure.

So here’s to the Hook - Go get ‘em Meat.